Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Torbay

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 5 employee jobs in Torbay, 0.01% of the 48,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, Torbay records 155 employee jobs, 0.32% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Torbay at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Torbay, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Torbay sits below it, 15th of 15 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Torbay picture: 75 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 75 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Torbay ranks 15th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.01% in Torbay. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Torbay in that order sit Bath and North East Somerset at 0.01%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Torbay ranks 13th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 60 in Torbay. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Torbay in that order sit Dorset at 70 and Bath and North East Somerset at 40.

That is the size of the courier trade in Torbay, 5 jobs across 60 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.